There are many benefits of having a website for your company.

A website can be one of the least expensive forms of advertising available, with average yearly costs, after initial site set up, design and building, running approximately $96 per year. This keeps your Domain Name current and reserves web hosting space for a period of one year. Most companies would consider this a nominal amount of advertising budget for one year, allowing your company to have local, national and worldwide exposure to their marketplace, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In today's business environment companies are expected to have a web presence at minimum. In a 1999 Microsoft publication, it was recorded that 1 out of 10 business's had a web presence. The projection also made, that by year 2003, the number would increase to 9 out 10 business with a web presence and a larger percentage with fully functioning e-commerce web sites used to conduct business and sell products efficiently. 

Our closing thoughts... We do not feel that the internet will take over  business as we know it today, but it's presence  will enhance it greatly and we will learn to use it as a tool to increase profits and productivity.